Latest Louisiana Headlines
All the headlines from our Louisiana Topic Page, ordered by recency.
States have common, and unique, concerns with homeowners coverage
Oct 23 2006 // The homeowners markets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, while sharing some similarities, all have their own special considerations and concerns. Oklahoma has some of the highest property insurance rates in the...
Oct 23 2006 // People Pat Arthur, a partner in the Dallas insurance and risk management firm McQueary, Henry, Bowles, Troy, has been appointed president-elect of the Independent Insurance Agents of Dallas. He will be responsible for...
Farmers to Double Coastal Rates in La., Lower Premiums in the North
Oct 20 2006 // Louisiana regulators on Oct. 18 approved rate increases for Farmers Insurance Exchange, ensuring that prices for the company’s homeowner policies across coastal Louisiana will nearly double early next year. The...
La. Using Bait Cars in Effort to Reduce Auto Insurance Fraud
Oct 20 2006 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported it now has a powerful new tool to use in its long standing battle against auto theft and high insurance rates. The tool, known as a bait car, is a motor vehicle fitted with...
La. Governor Waiting on Special Session for Insurance Relief
Oct 19 2006 // Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she has delayed calling a special legislative session on insurance relief because she is waiting to hear if the state will attract the major manufacturers it is courting, in deals that...
Affirmative Insurance Holdings to Acquire USAgencies
Oct 18 2006 // Affirmative Insurance Holdings Inc., Addison, Texas, and privately-held USAgencies L.L.C., based in Baton Rouge, La., announced a definitive agreement under which Affirmative will acquire 100 percent of the membership...
GOP Attempt to Call Special Session in La. Faces Hurdles
Oct 18 2006 // Republican state lawmakers face steep hurdles in their attempts to call the Louisiana Legislature into special session early next month an attempt to sidestep Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who they say is moving too...
La. Gov. Seizes Upon Popular Proposal for Insurance Bailout
Oct 17 2006 // For Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the train often appears to leave the station with her jumping on the caboose. She frequently is late to take positions on issues gathering political steam and regularly latches onto...
La. Gov. Runs Into Opposition for Insurance Rate Relief Plan
Oct 16 2006 // Opposition began lining up almost as soon as Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced her plan to bail out the state-run property insurance company, which is financially strapped after last year’s...
La. Agent’s Operations Shut Down
Oct 12 2006 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Investigators shut down all insurance licensing privileges of a Delhi, La., producer (agent) on multiple charges, Insurance Commissioner Donelon announced. Janis Dalene Simms...
Executive Says La. Safety Standards Could Help Attract Insurers
Oct 12 2006 // Homeowners insurance rates won’t drop anytime soon, but Louisiana has enacted safety standards since Hurricane Katrina that could help attract new insurance companies and moderate the costs, an insurance executive...
La. Court: ConocoPhillips Entitled to Defense Costs as Additional Insured
Oct 12 2006 // Judge Wilfred Carter of the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu, State of Louisiana, granted the motion for partial summary judgment of ConocoPhillips Company, successor-by-merger to Conoco Inc., that...
La. Motorist Dies in Crash After Fleeing Insurance Checkpoint
Oct 10 2006 // A motorist speeding off from an insurance checkpoint in Louisiana after struggling with a state trooper there was killed in a car crash, authorities said. The driver, Wilson Jackson III, 24, of New Orleans, died about 11...
La.’s Gov. Blanco Aims to Send Out Insurance Rate Relief Checks
Oct 10 2006 // Gov. Kathleen Blanco announced a plan to ease homeowners’ post-hurricane insurance burden by sending them state checks next year with money raised by selling off what remains of the 1998 tobacco...
La.’s Governor Blanco Promises Insurance Rate Relief
Oct 6 2006 // Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco issued the following statement on her Web site, regarding her plans to address recent insurance rate hikes for homeowners in Louisiana: “We need insurance rate relief and we need it...
La. State Police Checking for Compliance with Auto Insurance Law
Oct 6 2006 // The Louisiana State Police announced that its Troop E is conducting several insurance checkpoints Oct. 5 through Oct. 9. Checkpoints were tentatively scheduled for Oct. 5, 2006, in Grant and Rapides Parishes; Saturday,...
La. Producer Arrested for Allegedly Pocketing Premium Payments
Oct 6 2006 // A Shreveport, La., producer was issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of her license before being arrested for allegedly misappropriating insurance premium payments, forging names on various insurance...
Five Arrested for Theft Related to Contractor Fraud in La.
Oct 5 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that his Special Agents made arrests for theft of funds related to alleged contractor fraud in the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina. On Sept. 25, 2006,...
Report Says Hurricanes Turned La. Marshland Into Open Water
Oct 5 2006 // New estimates on wetlands loss from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita show that the storms turned 217 square miles of coastal marsh in Louisiana into open water, according to U.S. Geological Survey report. The agency released...
Hall Appointed to LWCC Board
Oct 4 2006 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) announced that Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has appointed James N. “Jim” Hall of Baton Rouge to its board of directors. Hall has served as...
